Forum moderators/administrators of Reddit, what was the most disturbing thing you had to take down?

1. Moderator for large paintball forums. Most disturbing thing I've come across was a suicide threat. We took it very seriously and were able to track down his family. His family was very thankful we reached out to them and talked to their son about it and they follow up with me every couple months and tell me how much better he is doing. They were aware he was socially awkward but not that he was self loathing also. Seems like he's getting the help he needed and thankfully someone listened to his cry for help.
   — Ohsighrus


2. I was a forum moderator for a general-purpose roleplaying/real-life forum a while back. I took down a post where someone said that they were going to come to someone else's house and cannibalize them.
   — Zenito1101


3. I'm not a reddit moderator; that said, I have been a moderator on several message boards, including the official boards for a major MMORPG at one point. The worst I ever had to remove was kiddy porn. I don't know why someone would want to do something like that. The images were posted from an IP originating out of Russia, and hosted on a server there. I turned over the pertinent info to the admins and they forwarded it to whoever. Don't know if anything came from it.
   — mysterious_baker






4. Kitten decapitation.
   — Oksbad


5. I was a moderator on a mental health support forum and chat site many many moons ago Someone started posting links to YouTube videos of them graphically describing how to kill your self, shoving the barrel of a gun in their mouth, and taunting members of the site to man up and follow through on all their suicidal thoughts and plans It was really disturbing and it caused chaos in chat and all over the forum I still don't know if that person was incredibly mentally ill, a troll, or a combo of both
   — summondemons


6. I'm a mod on a tech subreddit, worst I've seen is old men fucking each other , also being doxxed after a ban "Tell <real name> some interesting things are coming for him"
   — overcloseness






7. Not really particularly disturbing, but an interesting story nonetheless. I ran a small forum community for modding a particular PC game for a while. We only had a couple dozen active users, but they made some fairly quality stuff. One guy was posting his mods and most people thought they were pretty good. Well, after a few weeks of this, another user comes and says that this guy had stolen their mods from a Spanish modding forum for the game. The guy who originally posted them on my forum claimed that this guy was lying, but the new guy eventually linked to proof showing that they were absolutely his mods and they had been posted several weeks before the thief had posted them on my forum and taken credit for them. So naturally I banned the thief. He comes back with a new account claiming that they are definitely his mods. We ask him to show proof, but he refuses, basically saying "I posted them here first, so you should believe me!" So I ban him again. He makes a new account again, but this time, he starts spamming the forums with a number of angry, violent posts, claiming that he's going to kill everyone. He then tries to flood the forum with porn (just regular porn), which isn't even against the rules of the forum, and so I just delete his posts (because they were numerous and annoying) and banned him again. But this time, not only did I IP ban him, but I edited one of his posts to say something along the lines of "I am retarded thief and I got what I deserved", changed his user title to "Retarded Thief" and stickied the thread so everyone could see it. He never bothered us again.
   — KindaConfusedIGuess


8. Mod for several decent sized subs, including /r/FuckYouImAShark one time this dude starts spam posting really questionable porn on the sub, and i started removing them... then he shifted over to pics of his steaming piles of dookie in random public places. i didnt want to know what was going to come next, so i contacted an admin and asked them to IP ban the schmuck.
   — tunersharkbitten


9. Standard *not a Reddit moderator* disclaimer: at another website we occasionally got suicide threats. There wasn't any standard practice in place for handling this when it first happened so, taking a cue from military training where all such threats are handled as serious by default, in addition to taking down the post we contacted local law enforcement in the poster's jurisdiction and asked them to do a wellness check. Maybe nine times out of ten it's a teenage troll who doesn't mean a word of it; the other one time it could save a life.
   — doublestitch






10. Modded for a little while on a forum aimed at weeby teens when I was in my early 20s. Most disturbing was CP, had to report that up the chain to the admins and I don't know what came of it. There was also a user who was obsessed with making throwaways and posting very detailed pictures of autopsies/bloating and rotted corpses.
    — LascieI


11. Some guy shared with me his habit of providing meth precursor ingredients to gangs. I reported him and banned him. He responded by bombarding my admin's forum with bestiality porn until I "deleted his contributions", most of which were hosted on his site and disappeared when he failed to pay for it.
    — JavaAndMIPS